Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 273 301
Rank change year-on-year +8 +28 -95
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 469 564 557
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.79% 1.05% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.16% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 211 286 362
10th Percentile £41,075 £46,250 £46,375
25th Percentile £54,375 £56,495 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £95,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,814 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,033 48,451 50,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.60% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,230 23,579 38,463
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,479
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +11 416 £70,000 +3.70% 375
London +79 238 £85,000 +9.68% 98
UK excluding London -69 175 £62,500 -3.57% 350
Work from Home +13 171 £75,000 +15.38% 147
South East -29 52 £57,500 -11.54% 122
North of England -4 41 £73,750 +9.26% 57
Midlands -26 38 £62,250 -0.40% 48
West Midlands -2 25 £57,500 -9.80% 15
Yorkshire +5 23 £75,000 +15.38% 29
North West +12 17 £72,500 +3.57% 20
South West -20 16 £62,500 -3.29% 45
East of England +25 13 £67,000 -7.59% 47
Northern Ireland -3 11 £75,000 +26.20% 5
East Midlands -31 11 £80,000 +33.33% 32
Wales 0 4 £53,750 -16.16% 14
Scotland -8 3 £42,000 -29.33% 20
North East -4 1 - - 9

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.62%) Confluence
2 6 (1.28%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.64%) CMS
4 2 (0.43%) CICS
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.43%) MTS
5 1 (0.21%) Drupal
Applications
1 14 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.85%) Trello
6 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 15 (3.20%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.07%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.85%) Shopify
5 3 (0.64%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.21%) Magento
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 73 (15.57%) SaaS
2 49 (10.45%) Azure
3 47 (10.02%) AWS
4 21 (4.48%) Power Platform
5 19 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (3.41%) GCP
7 14 (2.99%) PaaS
8 13 (2.77%) GitHub
8 13 (2.77%) Pulumi
9 11 (2.35%) H2O.ai
9 11 (2.35%) OpenShift
10 10 (2.13%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (1.07%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.85%) Collibra
12 4 (0.85%) Google Analytics
12 4 (0.85%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 3 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.43%) Google Ads
14 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Copilot
14 2 (0.43%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.05%) Broadband
2 10 (2.13%) HTTP
3 8 (1.71%) SD-WAN
4 7 (1.49%) WAN
5 6 (1.28%) LAN
5 6 (1.28%) RTP
6 5 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.07%) Wireless
7 4 (0.85%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.64%) 5G
8 3 (0.64%) Multicast
9 2 (0.43%) ATM
10 1 (0.21%) 4G
10 1 (0.21%) GPRS
10 1 (0.21%) LTE
10 1 (0.21%) Modbus
10 1 (0.21%) Network Security
10 1 (0.21%) PSTN
10 1 (0.21%) Value-Added Service
10 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.12%) Relational Database
2 19 (4.05%) NoSQL
2 19 (4.05%) Power BI
3 18 (3.84%) Metadata
3 18 (3.84%) RDBMS
4 12 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.71%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.28%) SAP BW
7 5 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.07%) Tableau
8 4 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.64%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.64%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.43%) DB2
11 1 (0.21%) Big Data
11 1 (0.21%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 30 (6.40%) JIRA
2 13 (2.77%) Jaeger
3 4 (0.85%) ERwin
4 3 (0.64%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (0.64%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
General
1 175 (37.31%) Social Skills
2 174 (37.10%) Finance
3 105 (22.39%) Marketing
4 88 (18.76%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (9.81%) Banking
6 42 (8.96%) Legal
7 36 (7.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 33 (7.04%) Retail
9 31 (6.61%) Financial Institution
10 25 (5.33%) Manufacturing
11 22 (4.69%) Law
12 21 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (4.48%) Public Sector
13 17 (3.62%) Electronics
13 17 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (3.41%) Telecoms
15 15 (3.20%) Digital Economy
16 11 (2.35%) Publishing
17 10 (2.13%) Billing
Job Titles
1 131 (27.93%) Product Manager
2 71 (15.14%) Lead
3 58 (12.37%) Senior
4 30 (6.40%) Senior Manager
5 23 (4.90%) Product Owner
6 22 (4.69%) Product Lead
7 21 (4.48%) Senior Product Manager
8 19 (4.05%) Product Management Director
9 17 (3.62%) Digital Product Manager
10 15 (3.20%) Change Manager
10 15 (3.20%) Security Engineer
11 12 (2.56%) Developer
12 11 (2.35%) Architect
12 11 (2.35%) Data Manager
12 11 (2.35%) Technical Support
13 10 (2.13%) Development Engineer
13 10 (2.13%) Senior Development Engineer
13 10 (2.13%) Senior Software Development Engineer
13 10 (2.13%) Senior Software Engineer
13 10 (2.13%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.26%) REST
2 14 (2.99%) YAML
3 13 (2.77%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (2.77%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (2.35%) Keras
4 11 (2.35%) PyTorch
4 11 (2.35%) TensorFlow
5 5 (1.07%) .NET
5 5 (1.07%) EDI
5 5 (1.07%) FastAPI
5 5 (1.07%) Flask
6 4 (0.85%) JSON
6 4 (0.85%) Node.js
6 4 (0.85%) OAuth
6 4 (0.85%) SAML
6 4 (0.85%) SOAP
6 4 (0.85%) XML
7 3 (0.64%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.64%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (0.64%) React
Miscellaneous
1 78 (16.63%) Product Ownership
2 57 (12.15%) Onboarding
3 33 (7.04%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (5.97%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.99%) Data Centre
5 14 (2.99%) Security Posture
6 10 (2.13%) Public Cloud
7 9 (1.92%) Social Media
8 7 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.49%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.49%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.49%) IoT
8 7 (1.49%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 6 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.28%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.07%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.85%) Equities
11 4 (0.85%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.62%) Linux
2 13 (2.77%) Unix
3 5 (1.07%) Windows
4 2 (0.43%) zOS
5 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (50.75%) Roadmaps
2 194 (41.36%) Agile
3 133 (28.36%) Product Roadmap
4 116 (24.73%) Product Strategy
5 108 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
6 88 (18.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 88 (18.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 75 (15.99%) Analytics
8 74 (15.78%) User Experience
9 73 (15.57%) AI
10 69 (14.71%) Mentoring
11 68 (14.50%) Information Security
12 61 (13.01%) Product Vision
13 60 (12.79%) Computer Science
13 60 (12.79%) Decision-Making
14 56 (11.94%) User Stories
15 53 (11.30%) Business Development
15 53 (11.30%) Project Management
16 52 (11.09%) Coaching
17 49 (10.45%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 44 (9.38%) Python
2 36 (7.68%) SQL
3 29 (6.18%) Java
4 17 (3.62%) Go
5 14 (2.99%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.99%) PowerShell
6 13 (2.77%) Bash
7 4 (0.85%) C#
8 3 (0.64%) C++
9 2 (0.43%) COBOL
9 2 (0.43%) JCL
9 2 (0.43%) PHP
9 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.21%) R
10 1 (0.21%) Scala
10 1 (0.21%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 105 (22.39%) Degree
2 48 (10.23%) Master's Degree
3 47 (10.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 31 (6.61%) Security Cleared
5 19 (4.05%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.92%) MBA
8 8 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.71%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.49%) PMP
10 4 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.85%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.64%) CISM
11 3 (0.64%) CISSP
11 3 (0.64%) CSPO
11 3 (0.64%) HNC
12 2 (0.43%) CITP
13 1 (0.21%) CRISC
13 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.97%) QA
2 21 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.84%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.62%) Accessibility
4 17 (3.62%) NIST
5 15 (3.20%) NCSC
6 6 (1.28%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.07%) IFRS
7 5 (1.07%) SLA
8 4 (0.85%) GDPR
8 4 (0.85%) PMO
8 4 (0.85%) SEPA
9 3 (0.64%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.43%) COREP
10 2 (0.43%) FINREP
10 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.21%) GMP
11 1 (0.21%) GRC
11 1 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 18 (3.84%) Docker
2 3 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.64%) vSphere
3 2 (0.43%) RACF
4 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.21%) Firmware
4 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (3.84%) Kubernetes
1 18 (3.84%) Terraform
2 13 (2.77%) Ansible
2 13 (2.77%) Argo
2 13 (2.77%) Kustomize
2 13 (2.77%) Prometheus
3 4 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (9.81%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.97%) Google
3 19 (4.05%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.41%) Databricks
5 12 (2.56%) Dell
5 12 (2.56%) SAP
6 11 (2.35%) NVIDIA
7 6 (1.28%) Foundry
7 6 (1.28%) Oracle
7 6 (1.28%) Zoho
8 5 (1.07%) Adobe
9 4 (0.85%) Sage
9 4 (0.85%) YouTube
10 3 (0.64%) Apple
10 3 (0.64%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.64%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.64%) ION Trading
10 3 (0.64%) Patsystems
10 3 (0.64%) Reuters
10 3 (0.64%) Tenable